7 Famous Easy Riffs For Beginners

Hey guys! Right, now I know what it's like to be a beginner guitarist: it's kinda boring, right?
You keep on thinking - when can I learn that cool riff? - or you just wanna impress others by saying: "Yeah, I can play Guns N' Roses," or whatever.
So I've put together 7 easy guitar riffs from:
1. Guns N' Roses
2. Scorpions
3. Michael Jackson
4. Black Sabbath
5. Green Day
6. Linkin Park
7. Iron Maiden
But before we begin, the "Sweet Child O' Mine" intro tab is not mine, and the credit should go to the member jake_luvs_bex, as this intro was tabbed by him (I just included it, as it's a pretty good tab).
Enjoy!
1. "Sweet Child O' Mine" intro

you may want to change the title of this post to a few cool riffs. i remember just beginning and i had the exact same sentiments about playing the cool licks, but i think that an actual lesson should include techniques or material that can be applied to a variety of songs or styles and teach one how to improve their guitar playing.

no, you just need to take it easy and just keep challenging yourself to play through the notes. once you can confidently get through the notes, then consider getting yourself up to speed. once youv'e got those down, you'll be able to do it with your eyes closed. heres a weird tip... try playing in the mirror. it'll help you not to look at your hands.

very cool riff I learned 7 nation army riff when I was learning hear it is (just thought here is as good a place as any to put it)
1 -----]
2 -----]
3 -----] repeat as
4 -----] much as you
5 0030---0030-----] want(use
6 -----310-----31310-----] whammy as
you want for electric)

Sorry, me again lmao, but from a previous comment you said its good to look in a mirror so as not to look at your hands, is it bad always looking at yours hands? Because that's pretty much all I've been doing :L

thrill606 wrote on 05/28/2012 - 02:54 pm / quote |
what do the slashes in iron man represent?

They stand for slides. You should slide your fingers across the fretboard without lifting your finger.
E.g: E|--3-5/3\5---- | This means I should first play the third fret then the fifth, then slide back into the third and then slide back into the fifth.

That's sooo cool, now I can play the 'Beat It' riff! Quite good since about a minute ago I didn't know what a riff was, lolz
How do you do the one with the overlapping notes? I'm new to reading tabs. Is it like a chord? Do you strum everything with the held-down frets?